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Models Released in 2022

Browse every generative AI model released in 2022 — large language models, image generators, code models and more — ordered by release date. Compare their specs and rankings on our benchmarks page, or put any two side by side with compare. See also models from 2021 and models from 2023.

219 models

Chinchilla

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Mar 2022 70B
Language Proprietary

GraSR

🇺🇸 Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mar 2022
Language Open (Restricted)

Make-A-Scene

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Mar 2022 4B
Language Proprietary

MemSizer (language modeling)

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Mar 2022 357M
Language Proprietary

Segatron -XL base, M=150 + HCP

🇺🇸 Microsoft Research

Mar 2022 151M
Language Proprietary

Segatron-XL large, M=384 + HCP

🇺🇸 Microsoft Research

Mar 2022 257M
Language Proprietary

Transformer Large + HCP

🇺🇸 University of Waterloo

Mar 2022 257M
Language Proprietary

ViT-G (model soup)

🇺🇸 University of Washington

Mar 2022 1.8B
Vision Open Weights

GPT3-6.7B + muP

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Mar 2022 6.7B
Language Proprietary

MegaSyn

🇺🇸 Collaborations Pharmaceuticals

Mar 2022
Language Proprietary

RQ-Transformer (1.4B params ImageNet dataset)

🇰🇷 Kakao

Mar 2022 1.4B
Vision Proprietary

RQ-Transformer (3.8B params ImageNet dataset)

🇰🇷 Kakao

Mar 2022 3.8B
Vision Proprietary

RQ-Transformer (LSUN-cat dataset)

🇰🇷 Kakao

Mar 2022 612M
Language Proprietary

Statement Curriculum Learning

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Mar 2022 774M
Language Proprietary

DeepNet

🇺🇸 Microsoft Research

Mar 2022 3.2B
Language Proprietary

IT5 Base

🇮🇹 gsarti

Mar 2022
Language Open Source

PolyCoder

🇺🇸 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)

Feb 2022 2.7B
Language Open (Restricted)

FourCastNet

🇺🇸 NVIDIA

Feb 2022
Language Proprietary

ST-MoE

🇺🇸 Google

Feb 2022 269B
Language Proprietary

Midjourney V1

🇺🇸 Midjourney

Feb 2022
Language Proprietary

MuZero VP9

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Feb 2022
Video Proprietary

LaMDA

🇺🇸 Google

Feb 2022 137B
Language Proprietary

ProteinBERT

🇺🇸 Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Feb 2022 16M
Language Open (Restricted)

GPT-NeoX-20B

🇺🇸 EleutherAI

Feb 2022 20B
Language Open (Restricted)

MaskGIT (ImageNet)

🇺🇸 Google Research

Feb 2022 227M
Language Proprietary

RETRO-7B

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Feb 2022 7.5B
Language Proprietary

AlphaCode

🇬🇧 DeepMind

Feb 2022 41.1B
Language Proprietary

DARK

🇨🇳 University College London (UCL)

Jan 2022
Language Proprietary

InstructGPT 1.3B

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jan 2022 1.3B
Language Proprietary

InstructGPT 175B

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jan 2022 175B
Language Proprietary

InstructGPT 350M

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jan 2022 350M
Language Proprietary

InstructGPT 6B

🇺🇸 OpenAI

Jan 2022 6B
Language Proprietary

Primer (GPT-3 XL-like 1.9B)

🇺🇸 Google Brain

Jan 2022 1.9B
Language Proprietary

OntoProtein

🇺🇸 Zhejiang University (ZJU)

Jan 2022 420M
Language Open (Restricted)

AbLang (heavy sequences)

🇺🇸 University of Oxford

Jan 2022 355M
Language Open (Restricted)

data2vec (language)

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Jan 2022 705.1M
Language Open (Restricted)

Japanese-GPT-1B

🇯🇵 rinna

Jan 2022 1.3B
Language Open (Restricted)

Detic

🇺🇸 Meta AI

Jan 2022 88M
Vision Open (Restricted)

SignalP 6.0

🇩🇰 Technical University of Denmark

Jan 2022
Language Proprietary

2022 was another fast-moving year for generative AI. The models listed above span large language models (LLMs), image and video generators, code models and more, each with its own parameter count, context window, licensing and availability. To understand how the models of 2022 actually perform, compare their scores on our benchmarks page, and use compare to evaluate any two releases side by side.

Tracking AI by release year makes it easy to see how the frontier moves. Browse AI models from 2021 or AI models from 2023 to compare how capabilities, context windows and open-weights availability evolved year over year.